Barcelona City
Palau de la Música Catalana [music palace], St. Pere Mes Alt, Barcelona, Spain
Castell de Montjuïc, Barcelona
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Barcelona is the capital and largest city of Catalonia and Spain's second largest city, with a population of nearly one and half million people (nearly five million in the metropolitan area).This city, located directly on the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a rich history founded in the year 14 but it also merged with the town Castile-Leon in the late 1400s prominence as a Roman town under its old name, Barcino.In 1992, Barcelona gained international recognition by hosting the Olympic games which brought a massive upturn in its tourism industry.
This had the effect of changing the city in ways that are still felt today with neighborhoods renovated (and in some cases leveled) and the intense focus of modern design permeating all aspects of life in Barcelona from public buildings to something as simple as a park bench or an event poster.For visitors, this has translated into the very modern, yet incredibly old city you see now in the 21st century, where the new elements work to both preserve and celebrate the ancient.
